Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972 and were shot entirely on film and mostly on location in Bavaria, with the first episode recorded in German and the second recorded in English and then dubbed into German.

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Graham Chapman A Humble Woodcutter, Attendant, Bulle Hegel

John Cleese Archimedes, Attendant, Fourth Frenchman

Eric Idle Abe Seagull, Albrecht Dürer, Customer

Terry Jones Albrecht Dürer Singer, Angry Customer, Ceremonial Menu Waiter

Michael Palin Arthur Lustgarten, Arthur Wolf, Chairman

Terry Gilliam Betty Weiß, Criminally-Depressed Man, Defendant Kaspar

Connie Booth Princess Mitzi Gaynor

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Queen Elizabeth II Self

Richard Nixon Self

Prince Philip Self

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